UNISON is changing its main contact number. From January 2014, UNISON will be using a new freephone number – 0800 0857 857 – instead of the current 0845 number. This number will cover both our UNISONdirect helpline and the central switchboard number for contacting […]
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Joint Statement between NHS ambulance Trusts in England and UNISON, GMB and Unite Employers and trade unions held further joint discussions on 20 December. Progress so far and future joint requirements for data collection and analysis were discussed. It was agreed that there would be more substantive discussions at a joint meeting on 3 January […]
Continue ReadingEmployers and trade unions held further joint discussions on 13 December in order to: (1) agree that appropriate project infrastructure was in place. Terms of Reference (TOR) for two out of three sub-groups were agreed (Rota Modelling and Communications) and the TOR for the third (Process Development) would be available for joint sign-off shortly.
Continue ReadingJoint Statement between NHS ambulance Trusts in England and UNISON, GMB and Unite Employers and trade unions met on 6 December. All ambulance employers were now able to confirm that unsocial hours payments already deducted from salaries will be repaid in December salaries.
Continue ReadingIn their joint statement on 11 November 2013 employers and trades unions from the ambulance service confirmed their agreement to hold “genuine and constructive talks on what unsocial hours arrangements should apply during sickness absence, including the potential application of Section 2 and options to change Annex E.” Terms of Reference would be agreed setting […]
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Today, employers and Trade Unions from the ambulance service met to discuss issues around changes to Annex E. Employers agreed to suspend unsocial hours payment deductions to staff absent due to sickness and trade unions agreed to suspend their industrial action ballots. We have therefore jointly agreed that:
Continue ReadingUNISON welcomes the opportunity to submit evidence to the NHS Working Longer Review. We are the major trade union in the National Health Service and the largest public service union in the UK. We represent more than 450,000 healthcare staff employed in the NHS. Our members work across a broad spectrum of jobs in the NHS and […]
Continue ReadingUNISON, GMB and Unite members working in England’s ambulance services have voted to reject proposals to apply up to 25% deductions to sick pay. The proposals were put forward in June as a way of matching the changes made earlier this year to sick pay for other health workers, at a time when many NHS […]
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